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Microsoft's E3 press conference had two purposes: to show dominance in the very narrow category of violence-driven male-targeted enthusiast action titles, and to launch Kinect, formerly known as Project Natal, in a stab at the wide market for its newly redesigned Xbox 360. Blood 'n' Guts The trailers and demos that led the conference highlighted the real drive towards action and explicit violence that Microsoft has made the cornerstone of the Xbox 360's audience along ...
Microsoft announced that Kinect (Project Natal), its controller-free, motion-sensing device for Xbox 360, launches worldwide this holiday season, starting in North America on November 4th. At its E3 press conference today, the platform holder demonstrated several of Kinect's 15 planned launch titles, as well as the accessory's capabilities -- like navigating the Xbox dashboard via gesture recognition, and navigating Zune movies forward and backward with hand movements. In addition, voice recognition using Kinect means that ...
At Microsoft's E3 kick-off event on Sunday evening in L.A., a lavish Cirque Du Soleil event revealed Project Natal is officially "Kinect," while images of a redesigned Xbox 360 also circulate. A USA Today report -- later confirmed at the multi-million dollar launch event -- that Microsoft's Project Natal motion sensing camera, launching later this year, is now officially called Kinect. The control solution, which also has a built-in microphone, has been using the codename ...
Sony's PlayStation Move and Xbox 360's Project Natal motion control solutions have been garnering a lot of the spotlight from core gamers and the press, but a new study reflects currently low purchase intent for the new devices. Research firm OTX's U.S. tracking study GamePlan Insights polled a group of 2,000 gamers between May 23 and June 5, 2010, and found that 8 percent of the Xbox 360 market intends to buy Natal, and 6 ...
A group of development veterans most recently worked at Electronic Arts Los Angeles has formed independent developer Haunted Temple Studios, whose first project is the Advance Wars-inspired Skulls of the Shogun for Xbox Live Arcade and PC. Comprised of four team members and announced on the game's official site, Haunted Temple was spearheaded by artist Jake Kazdal, who first become known for his work on Space Channel 5 and Rez at Sega's United Game Artists. ...
Electronic Arts is spending more money on the development of Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO than it's ever spent on any game in its history. "It is the largest R& D project EA has ever undertaken in terms of total dollars that we expect to spend bringing the title to market," said chief financial officer Eric Brown at Janney Capital Markets' 2010 Consumer Conference, as listened in on by Gamasutra. And an investment of ...
League of Legends developer Riot Games is using Hansoft's self-titled project management tools for its agile development pipeline, the companies announced today. Hansoft, currently in version 6.0, describes its product as an "integrated solution for agile and lean development," and says Riot chose its product after evaluating other similar ones. "We were searching for a project management tool that is user friendly and flexible enough to handle agile development and pipeline workflows, while providing the ...
Gazillion Entertainment-owned NetDevil will be using Emergent's Gamebryo on its current project: the LEGO Universe MMO. The all-ages online environment will be the first MMO based on the toy bricks. It's been long in the works; in 2008, the developer told us it had begun focus testing a full two years prior. But the project's technical director, Erik Urdang, says that using Gamebryo, the team's artists began creating content within the first month of production. ...
Microsoft Saudi Arabia's marketing manager seems to have confirmed an October worldwide launch for Xbox 360's Project Natal full-body motion control sensor. Although Syed Bilal Tariq, represented as an employee of the company, said in an television interview passed on via Gamertag Radio that the official launch date would be confirmed at E3 this year, he noted the Saudi Arabia launch would be part of the global launch, "and in the world that is going ...
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